Cary Mallory (Full Translation with Illustrations)

Author: Theodore Dreiser (USA)
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: The New York Herald Tribune and The Evening Post of the United States called Sister Carrie a great American novel and referred to its author, Dreiser, as "Zola of America." Sister Carrie was regarded by the British public as "a true realist novel" and was enthusiastically praised by The Daily Mail as: "America has finally produced a truly bold novel." Nobel Prize winner Louis said of Sister Carrie, "It swept through the sheltered, closed-off America like a powerful, free western wind. For the first time since Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, it brought fresh air into the stuffy households of America." Sister Carrie marked the beginning of the golden age of American literature in the 1920s and 1930s, and thus was hailed by critics as a historically significant milestone in American fiction. Sister Carrie and Sister Julia (both works by Dreiser) were included together in the "100 Best English Novels of the 20th Century" selected by the Modern Library in the United States. Dreiser was one of the most outstanding realist writers of the 20th century in the United States, alongside Hemingway and Faulkner, as one of the three giants of modern American fiction.